Lucy Walker
- Directing
- January 1, 1970 · London, England, UK
Biography
Lucy Walker (born 1970; London) is an British documentary film director. She has directed the feature documentaries Devil's Playground (2002), Blindsight (2006), Waste Land (2010), Countdown to Zero (2010), The Crash Reel (2013), Buena Vista Social Club: Adios (2017), Bring Your Own Brigade (2021), and Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (2023). She has also directed the short films The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011) and The Lion's Mouth Opens (2014). Waste Land was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).
Known for
Filmography
- Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa · Executive producer, Director
- Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine · Producer, Director
- How to Change Your Mind · Executive producer, Director
- Bring Your Own Brigade · Director, Producer
- Why Did You Kill Me? · Producer
- Defying Gravity: The Untold Story of Women's Gymnastics · Director, Executive producer
- Half the Picture · Self
- Oh, What a Beautiful City (A City Symphony) · Director
- Bridge Poem · Director
- Ram Dass, Going Home · Executive producer
- Buena Vista Social Club: Adios · Director, Executive producer
- #LikeAGirl · Director
- The Vodou Healer · Director
- PlayStation: Makers & Gamers - Street Fighter · Director
- The New Yorker Presents · Director
- A History of Cuban Dance · Director, Writer
- Feel Every Smile · Director
- Project Daniel · Director
- The Lion's Mouth Opens · Director, Sound Recordist
- Daredevil on a Snowmobile · Director, Producer
- David Hockney in the Now: In Six Minutes · Director, Producer
- The Crash Reel · Writer, Director
- The Rein of Mary King · Director
- The Red Pill · Director
- Crooked Lines · Director
- Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas · Director
- Make Haste Slowly · Director
- The Contenders · Director
- Secrets of the Mongolian Archers · Director
- The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom · Director, Producer
- Countdown to Zero · Director, Writer
- Waste Land · Director, Screenplay
- Blindsight · Cinematography, Director
- Devil's Playground · Director, Cinematography
- Independent Lens · Director
- Blue's Clues: Blue's Birthday · Director
- Blue's Clues · Director
- Interspecies · Director